The largest retreat centre of its kind in North America, in a former Jesuit novitiate above a Berkshire lake. A Read more...
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Omega Institute
Rhinebeck, New York, United States
A 250-acre nonprofit campus in the Hudson Valley running workshops through the warm months. Closer to a summer school than Read more...
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Esalen Institute
Big Sur, California, United States
Hot mineral baths on a cliff above the Pacific, attached to the workshop programme that more or less invented the Read more...
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Woodacre, California, United States
Insight meditation in the hills of west Marin, with silent residential retreats running from a weekend to two months. Serious Read more...
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Insight Meditation Society
Barre, Massachusetts, United States
One of the oldest vipassana centres in the West, running long silent retreats in rural central Massachusetts. Read our guide Read more...
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Garrison Institute
Garrison, New York, United States
A former Capuchin monastery above the Hudson, now running contemplative and trauma-informed programmes. An hour from Grand Central by train, Read more...
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Drala Mountain Center
Red Feather Lakes, Colorado, United States
Six hundred acres at 8000 feet with the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya at the centre. The altitude is a real Read more...
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1440 Multiversity
Scotts Valley, California, United States
A purpose-built campus in the redwoods above Santa Cruz, more comfortable than most of this category and more structured than Read more...
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Feathered Pipe Ranch
Helena, Montana, United States
One of the oldest yoga retreat centres in the United States, running small residential weeks in the Rockies since the Read more...
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Satchidananda Ashram — Yogaville
Buckingham, Virginia, United States
A working ashram on the James River with a full daily schedule and a resident community. Genuinely monastic in rhythm, Read more...
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Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch
Woodbourne, New York, United States
Classical Sivananda practice in the Catskills, with a fixed schedule that starts before six. The closest thing to a traditional Read more...
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Mount Madonna Center
Watsonville, California, United States
A redwood ridge above Monterey Bay, run by a resident community since the late 1970s. Quiet, unpolished and considerably cheaper Read more...
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Karmê Chöling
Barnet, Vermont, United States
A Shambhala practice centre in the Northeast Kingdom, running everything from weekend introductions to month-long group retreats. Read more...
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Canyon Ranch Tucson
Tucson, Arizona, United States
The property that largely defined the American destination spa, in the Sonoran desert north of Tucson. Medical and fitness services Read more...
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Breitenbush Hot Springs
Detroit, Oregon, United States
A worker-owned cooperative in the Cascades combining natural hot springs with a retreat programme, off-grid and geothermally heated. Rebuilt after Read more...
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Canyon Ranch Lenox
Lenox, Massachusetts, United States
The Berkshires sibling, built around a Gilded Age mansion. The east-coast option for the same programme, with a harder winter Read more...
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Miraval Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, United States
All-inclusive desert resort with a mindfulness framing and an unusually wide activity list. The main alternative to Canyon Ranch in Read more...
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Miraval Berkshires
Lenox, Massachusetts, United States
The newer east-coast property, in a converted Berkshire estate. Same all-inclusive model, closer to the northeastern cities. Read more...
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Sensei Lanai
Lanai, Hawaii, United States
Adults-only resort on a private Hawaiian island, with an assessment-led wellness programme attached. The most remote entry in the US Read more...
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Blackberry Farm
Walland, Tennessee, United States
A working farm estate in the Smokies where the food is the main event and the spa is support. The Read more...